Smithfield Naturally Hickory Smoked Hometown Original Bacon offers authentic hickory-smoked flavor to enhance your everyday meals. Smithfield ensures the highest quality hickory bacon strips by hand-selecting and hand-trimming the finest cuts of pork.

Authentic European Cottage Style bacon, made from specially-selected pork collars from hogs that are fed a strict diet of lean grains. Slowly smoked over natural hardwoods, providing a rich aroma and savory flavor, with a thick gourmet cut for a meaty bite.

Nutrition/Ingredients 45, Total Fat 5g (8% DV), Sat. Fat 2g (10% DV) Trans Fat 0g, Cholesterol 10mg (3% DV), Sodium 190mg (8% DV), Total Carb. 0g (0% DV), Dietary Fiber 0g (0%DV), Sugars 0g, Protein 3g (6% DV), Vitamin A (0% DV), Vitamin C (0% DV), Calcium (0% DV), Iron (0% DV).

Butcher store bacon will usually be at least as good as or better than packaged bacon, and you can have it sliced as thin or thick as you desire, as well as just getting a few slices, as opposed to a whole package.

All Smithfield products not only meet our customers' high flavor standards but also meet the highest quality and safety standards in the industry. All while being produced right here in the USA. Founded by Peter Eckrich in 1894, Eckrich® has a rich heritage starting from a small meat market in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Smithfield sources pigs from North Carolina farms and others in surrounding states to make the hams, ribs, pork chops, loins, butts, sausages and bacon we all enjoy.

The name comes from an old tradition – or belief – that the butcher would often keep this cut for him- or herself. The French name is “onglet”. Yet another English name is “hanging tender”.

Crispy bacon lovers should opt for thinner slices, while those who want some chew are better off with thicker cuts. And if you're looking for less fat in your bacon, center-cut is the choice for you. It comes from pork belly cut close to the bone and has 25% to 30% less fat than standard bacon.

Regular packaged bacon is sliced about 1/16-inch thick, whereas thick-cut bacon is generally double that. Crispy bacon lovers should opt for thinner slices, while those who want some chew are better off with thicker cuts. And if you're looking for less fat in your bacon, center-cut is the choice for you.

Still, this may be a good time for a reminder about why it's a good idea to cut back. Four slices thick-cut bacon have about 240 calories. They also contain eight grams of saturated fat and 880 mg of sodium - about 40% of your government-recommended daily values.

In my experience, yes. Even in the case of a regular supermarket butcher counter (where I rarely will purchase anything else), the bacon they sell will be thicker sliced, and higher quality than just about any other brand of pre-packaged bacon in the meat cooler aisle, and usually at around half the price (by weight).

Processed meats are meats that have been preserved by smoking or salting, curing or adding chemical preservatives. They include deli meats, bacon and hot dogs.

“Smithfield has not, does not, and will not import any products from China to the United States. No Smithfield products come from animals raised, processed, or packaged in China.

WH Group Smithfield Foods, Inc., is a pork producer and food-processing company based in Smithfield, Virginia. It operates as an independent subsidiary of the Chinese-owned conglomerate WH Group.

hanger steak The hanger steak is a cut of beef that's similar to skirt steak but taken from the diaphragm of a cow, or plate. It is also known as the “butcher's steak” because butchers would often keep it for themselves. It is a long, thin cut of meat that is a little tougher than skirt steak, but can be cooked in many ways.

But no, that's not what I mean. Butcher's Cuts are called as such because they are usually left out of the meat case and taken home by the butcher. Generally speaking, they are unpopular, relatively unknown or hard to sell because of very limited quantities per animal. They are also economical and tasty.